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  • Cille Pheadair

    a Norse Farmstead and Pictish Burial Cairn in South Uist

    by Mike Parker Pearson, Mark Brennand, Jacqui Mulville, Helen Smith ...
    Series Book 7 - Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides
    Cille Pheadair is one of more than 20 Viking Age and Late Norse settlements discovered on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles), off the west coast of Scotland. Its unusually well-preserved stratigraphic sequence of nine phases of occupation, including five longhouses and many smaller buildings, provides a remarkable insight into daily life on a Norse farmstead during two ... Read more

    $24.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cladh Hallan - Roundhouses and the dead in the Hebridean Bronze Age and Iron Age

    Part I: Stratigraghy, Spatial Organisation and Chronology

    by Mike Parker Pearson, Jacqui Mulville, Helen Smith, Peter Marshall ...
    Series Book 8 - Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides
    This first of two volumes presents the archaeological evidence of a long sequence of settlement and funerary activity from the Beaker period (Early Bronze Age c. 2000 BC) to the Early Iron Age (c. 500 BC) at the unusually long-occupied site of Cladh Hallan on South Uist in the Western Isles of Scotland. Particular highlights of its sequence are a cremation burial ground and pyre site of the 18th ... Read more

    $24.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stonehenge

    A Brief History

    by Professor Mike Parker Pearson ...
    Series series Archaeological Histories
    Stonehenge is one of the world's most famous monuments. Who built it, how and why are questions that have endured for at least 900 years, but modern methods of investigation are now able to offer up a completely new understanding of this iconic stone circle.Stonehenge's history straddles the transition from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age, though its story began long before it was built. Serving ... Read more

    $29.49 CAD

  • Cladh Hallan: Roundhouses and the Dead in the Hebridean Bronze Age and Iron Age

    Part 2: Material Culture, Subsistence, Skeletons and Synthesis

    by Mike Parker Pearson, Jacqui Mulville, Helen Smith, Peter Marshall ...
    Series Book 10 - Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides
    Presents archaeological and scientific studies of materials from Cladh Hallan, revealing insights into Bronze and Iron Age life and death in Scotland.This second of two volumes presents archaeological and scientific studies of a wide range of materials from the unusually long-occupied Bronze Age and Iron Age site of Cladh Hallan on South Uist in the Western Isles of Scotland. These include ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Excavations at Cill Donnain

    A Bronze Age Settlement and Iron Age Wheelhouse in South Uist

    by Mike Parker Pearson, Marek Zvelebil ...
    Series Book 9 - Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides
    The SEARCH (Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides) project began in 1987 and covers the Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. The aim of the project is to investigate how human societies adapted in the long-term to the isolated environment of the Outer Hebrides.The first major excavation on South Uist discovered that what was thought to be a shell midden at Cill Donnain ... Read more

    $44.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    $10.99 CAD

  • Ancestors

    A prehistory of Britain in seven burials

    by Alice Roberts ...
    An extraordinary exploration of the ancestry of Britain through seven burial sites. By using new advances in genetics and taking us through important archaeological discoveries, Professor Alice Roberts helps us better understand life today.‘This is a terrific, timely and transporting book - taking us heart, body and mind beyond history, to the fascinating truth of the prehistoric past and the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Britain BC

    Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans (Text Only)

    by Francis Pryor ...
    An authoritative and radical rethinking of the history of Ancient Britain and Ancient Ireland, based on remarkable new archaeological finds.British history is traditionally regarded as having started with the Roman Conquest. But this is to ignore half a million years of prehistory that still exert a profound influence. Here Francis Pryor examines the great ceremonial landscapes of Ancient Britain ... Read more

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  • Seahenge

    a quest for life and death in Bronze Age Britain

    by Francis Pryor ...
    A lively and authoritative investigation into the lives of our ancestors, based on the revolution in the field of Bronze Age archaeology which has been taking place in Norfolk and the Fenlands over the last twenty years, and in which the author has played a central role.One of the most haunting and enigmatic archaeological discoveries of recent times was the uncovering in 1998 at low tide of the ... Read more

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  • Pagan Britain

    by Ronald Hutton ...
    Britain's pagan past, with its mysterious monuments, atmospheric sites, enigmatic artifacts, bloodthirsty legends, and cryptic inscriptions, is both enthralling and perplexing to a resident of the twenty-first century. In this ambitious and thoroughly up-to-date book, Ronald Hutton reveals the long development, rapid suppression, and enduring cultural significance of paganism, from the Paleolithic ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Making of the British Landscape

    How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today

    by Francis Pryor ...
    This is the changing story of Britain as it has been preserved in our fields, roads, buildings, towns and villages, mountains, forests and islands. From our suburban streets that still trace out the boundaries of long vanished farms to the Norfolk Broads, formed when medieval peat pits flooded, from the ceremonial landscapes of Stonehenge to the spread of the railways - evidence of how man's ... Read more

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  • The Fens

    Discovering England's Ancient Depths

    by Francis Pryor ...
    A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.'Francis Pryor brings the magic of the Fens to life in a deeply personal and utterly enthralling way' TONY ROBINSON.'Pryor feels the land rather than simply knowing it' GUARDIAN.Inland from the Wash, on England's eastern cost, crisscrossed by substantial rivers and punctuated by soaring church spires, are the low-lying, marshy and mysterious Fens. Formed by marine ... Read more

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